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SAMUEL \VRIGHT, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, JAMES MUIR, AND WILLIAM BOYD, OF SAME PLAOE.

MECHANISM USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 471,838, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed April 21, 1890. Serial No. 348,881. (No model.) Patented in England February 29,1888, No. 3,091, in Germany March 11,1888,No.45,118; in Spain July 13, 1888,1To.8,242; in France August 2'7, 1888,1l0.192,614; in Belgium Au u t 27,1888,No. 83,036; in Sweden December 15, 1888,110. 2,118; in Norway December 19, 1888,1To. 1,158; in Italy D e b 21, 1888, XLVIII, 488, and in Austria-Hungary April 4, 1889, No. 52,065.

land, have invented Improved Mechanism Used in the Manufacture of Barrels and Packages, of which the following is a specification.

Patents have been obtained for said inven-v IO tion in Great Britain, No. 3,091, dated February 29, 1888; in France, No. 192,614, dated August27, 1888; in Belgium,No. 83,036, dated August 27, 1888; in Spain, No. 8,772, dated December 19,1888, patent of addition to No. 8,242, dated July 13, 1888; in Austria-Hungary, No. 52,065, dated April 14, 1889; in Germany, No. 46,680, dated May 4, 1888, patent of addition to No. 45,118, dated March 11, 1888; in Norway, No. 1,158, dated December 19, 1888; in Italy, Vol. XLVIII, 483, dated December 21,

1888, and in Sweden, No. 2,113, dated December 15, 1888.

My invention comprises a new or improved construction of machine or combinations of mechanism and saws or cutters, and knivesand lances for trussing, chining, crozing, grooving, and finishing casks or barrels and box barrels or packages.

In order to enable others skilled in the art 0 to which my invention relates to understand how it may be carried into effect or practice, I have hereunto appended five explanatory sheets of drawings, in which the same reference-letters are used to indicate correspond- 3 5 ing parts in all the figures where shown.

.Figures 1, 1 2, and 2 on Sheets 1 and 2 are a longitudinal elevation, partly in section, and a plan, respectively, of my new or im proved construction of machine or combination of mechanism for trussing, crozing, grooving, and finishing casks or barrels and box barrels or packages, Fig. 1 being a continuation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2? a continuation of Fig. 2, the lines 1 1 representing where respective figures shouldjoin. Fig. 3 on Sheet 3 is an end elevation looking at the left-hand or gearing end of the machine shown on.

Sheet 1; and Fig. 4 on Sheet 4 is atransverse section as taken on the line 2 2 ofFig. 1 Sheet 2, looking in the same direction. Figs. 5 and 6 on Sheet 3 are detached detail views, to an enlarged scale, of the slides and their dogs or grippers, which secure the barrel or package in the head-stocks A A while being rotated and operated on in the machine; and

9 and 10 on Sheets 4 and 3 show a side and end section, respectively, of a box barrel or package of a square character with rounded corners; and Fig. 11 on Sheet 4 shows an end view, to asmall scale, of abox-barrel, showing the chiming-hoops Y necessary for turning this form of barrel in-the machine. Fig. 12

' is an enlarged sectional view of the machine in elevation, showing the end frame A from the line 2 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 13 is a view of amodification of the chining and crozing implement.

Referring to the drawings, after the staves Z Z are built up and the truss-hoops Y Y temporarily put on in any usual manner the barrel or package so far formed either with the said tongue-and-grooved staves or with plain-jointed staves is placed and treated, as hereinafter described, in the improved construction of trussing, crozing, and finishing machine shown in these drawings. 8

The movable end frame A or frames A A of this improved trussing-machine are formed of a strong annular shape, with broad basement-soles A and the outer end one A is traversed by its slide-base A along on the 0 planed bed B of the bed-plate B to truss up the barrel or package Z Z by means of two horizontal screw-spindles O 0, Working in screw-nuts A, secured on the endframe A. These screw-spindles O O are carried in jour- 5 rial-bearings at O opposite each other in the end frame A and fixed-gearing standardframe D and are rotated by spur-gea ring-c 0 mounted on them at one end of the machine, so as to traverse the end trussing-frame A (or it might be both frames A A) on the planed slide-bed B of the bed-frame B, secured to a suitable strong foundation to carry the whole machine, The spur-gearing c c 0 consists of a spur-wheel c c, mounted at the end of each screw-spindle O 0, both in gear with an intermediate spur-wheel 0 mounted loosely by its hollow eye-spindle c in a bearing-eye D in the end standard D, supporting the gearing on the hollow shaft F. The lowerscrew-spindle O has its outer end carried in a bush-bearing at 0 in the end standard D, carrying the gearing and bolted by broad basement-flanges D the same as the standard D, to the bed-plate B, and receives mo-' tion from reversing-pulleys I I and open and 'cross bands 1 11, with a'slack pulley 1 bedrawings,) the belt being shifted by a fork sliding-bar motion v(shownat I at the back of thepulleys I 'I inrbrackets I) .to give'the reslack pulley 15.

verse motionsflto the screw-spindles G C, as indicated bythe arrows on the driving-bands, Figs. 1 and 2, Sheet 1; but they i might be actuated by'a shifting-clutch mounted on the shaft O between the pulleys I 1 instead of the ted from the lower Wheel 0, through the intermediate loose spur-wheel 0 to the other wheel c'onihespindle C, so that both spur-wheels would act to rotate'the screw-spindlesC C" in either direction to traversethe end frame A to or from the barrel or package Z being trussed to truss up the rings Y, Y, or Y andstavesZor relieve the barrel afterward for being'chined-and removed. These. end trussingframes A A have four radial slide-blocks a, fit tedon slide-guides A on them, actuated by hand-screwsa" at their outer ends, while their innerendsa which tighten up the end'hoops Y Y, have also-laterallyprojecting screws or studs a mounted on them, preferably so asto oscillate on stop bosses or hinges a," to

retain them in their lateral position, so asto carry pressing dogs or blocks aiwith j am-nuts for retaining these dogs a inposition' to take onto-and press up theinner trussing-hoops Y Y. One oftheselswivelingspindles and dogs a (L infront 'on each trussingend frame A A is made so as to hinge outward on its boss a and be locked or unlocked by thelocker 71 in its lateral. acting. position,so as to takeout Motion would be transmitages are to be trussed, chined, and finished in the trussing and crozing machine, they are by one arrangement rotated by a central hollow shaft F, having mounted on it a boss F, Figs. 1 and 4, with movable toothed rack radial arms ff at right angles to each other, actuated and adjusted by a central spur-wheel F within 1 y g on a counter-shaft 9 carried in standards S close to the back of the bed-frame B B B and actuated by apulley and belts-at ig from the'mai'n or an intermediate counterjshaft, which actuates the belts 1 1, but'not shown in thedrawings- The hollow shaft F may be held in any desired longitudinal positionto which it is'set by a pinchi11g-screw through the hollow driving-boss F orby a swiveling gab F mounted on the-lateral. stud F secnredin the end frame'D and taking into grooves in the hollow spindle F. The spurwheel F -whenturned in one direction moves the racks f out-ward, so as to cause theircircumferential ends fto grip the inner surface of thebarrel or box-barrelZ or Z, which would thus be rotated as the central hollow shaft F- rotates. The spindle F of the spur-wheel F is on the shafts G for the belts G to-pass up and actuate the pulleys E onthe en'd spindles E, which carrythe saws e and cutters e e" for chining the cask, as will be hereinafter described. This'shaft G is driven at a high speed by the fast and loose small pulleys g g, mounted on its-overhungendand actuated by a belt g 'from a large pulley on the first-motion counter-shaft (not shown in the drawings) and shifted by the hand forklever g mounted on a bracket 9 at thelower part of the end frame D".

A further improvement consists in-mounting a light oscillating frame E by bush-bear- A first-motion high-speed shaft G ings E atits lower ends on each side of the pulleys G on the driving-shaft G, carried in the bed-plate B B orother equivalent oscillating center, whichmight beuoverthe ma chine instead of under it outsideeach of the two end trussing-frames A A, and carrying in bearings E E on-their upper ends the two short horizontal rotating spindles E, with bosses eon their projecting ends and with the saws e and cutters e e for projecting within the open ends of the barrel or boxbarrel Z or Z, as shown to a large scale in Figs. 7 and 8, so as to cut the ends of these or the staves to the proper length and chine and groove them at 2 or check them within, as at a to receive the closing ends, the frames E and their spindles E, rocking to the shape and rounded corners of the cask or case, while the saws e cut the ends of the cask to their exact length and while the cutters e e are dressing and chining it, cutting in the opposite direction to the slowly-rotating barrel-case, actuated 'as before described and as indicated by the arrows. A rotating disk-collar or guide-guard e is mounted on the boss 6 on the inner end of the swinging saw-spindles E, all secured by a nut (2. made of such a size as to allow the saw to cut through the staves and the knives to cut in and chine and croze the cask until the disk 6 rolls on the full wood of the staves beyond the chine and groove on the inside and so regulates and adjusts the depth of the chine and wood cut away and prevents the frame and spindle from coming radially forward any farther, however hard the person may pull it. Each of these rotating cutting-spindles E is driven byasmall pulley E, mounted on the center of its spindle E between its bearings E in the frame E and a drivingband G, passed over another pulley G on the lower shaft G within the bed-frame B B and moved longitudinally along with its oscillating frame E on this shaft by a handscrew spindle E or other equivalent fitted on the oscillating frame E passed througha screw-bush at E oscillating in a segmental slot E in each of the trussing-frames A A, as seen more particularly in Figs. 1 and 4. These oscillating frames E carrying the saw and cutter spindles E, are mounted with a bow-handle at J in front to throw their cutter-spindles E into or out of action against the power of a counter-weight and cord J, at-

tached to and mounted at their back over guide-pulleys J carried to slide on studs J and so as to draw the spindles and cutters into actlon with any desired degree of tension against the power of the weight and cord J, which takes them out of action.

lVhen desired,both the casks and packages Z or Z may be rotated within the trussingmachine by passing an endless beltaround their outer surface or around a hoop temporarily secured on them and driving same by a band j (indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 2 and 4 on Sheets 2 and 4) from'a pulley j on'the before-mentioned countershaft g the band j being tightened up by a movable tightening-pulley j, carried on a lever 7' oscillating loosely on the shaft 9 and actuated by a counterweighted treadle-lever and rod j j', fnlcrumed on a spindle 7' as seen more particularly in Fig. 4, the barrel Z rotating while the foot is on the treadle j only.

The disks 6 are Fig. 12 on Sheet 5 shows to a large scale a sectional end view, as taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1*, of the end frame A, which screws up the temporary hoops Y,Y, or Y and in which the barrel or package Z or Z is turned on the screwed-up hoops Y Y on the inner end a of the slides a, and showing an arrangement of lever mechanism L for throwing the back dogs a out of action after tightening up the temon the back stud J or other stud close to each frame A A and having the handle of the lever L projecting out in front through a retaining checked slide-bracket L, bolted to the front flange of each frame A A. This porary hoops Y Y Y for the turning of the leverL is connected to the tilting spindle a of the lower back dogs a by a slot at L and by a chain L connected by an eye at its upper end to the tilting spindle a 'of the upper dogs a the chain being passed over a guidepulley L carried on a stud I3 projecting from each frame A A, all so that, when the handle of the lever L is secured in the upper position of its slotted retaining-guide L (seen in Fig. 4) the back dogs a in the end frames A A: will be in position for tightening up the inner chining-hoops Y Y ,but when-the lever L is lowered to the position seen in dottedlines in Fig. 12 after chining up the hoops it will tilt the dogs a a 'out of action, when the barrel will be then turned on its outer hoop .Y'Y on the inner ends a to cut ofi the ends of the staves and chine and croze them by the cutters e e on the spindles E E in the rocking frame E all as hereinbefore described; but by another improvement (shown in Figs. 12 and 13) in some cases it is preferred when the staves are not carefully jointed and even in the inside to guide the spindle and cutters by a fixed curved or segmental guide 6 carried by a bracket e bolted at e to the upper end of the rocking frame E instead of the rotating disk e secured to the inner end of the spindle E, hereinbefore described. A shifting stop-bracket e is secured to the outside of the frames A A by a slot and screw at e for stopping the oscillating frame E when the cutters have cut the chine of the barrel to the proper diameter, this bracket a shifting to suit for barrels of different sizes.

What I claim is- In a machine for trussing, crozing, and finishing barrels, the combination ofa central hollow shaft F, on which is mounted a boss with radially-movable segment-carrying rack-arms, with a shaft F passing out through to this specification in the presence of two subthe said' hollow driving-shaft F, mounted in scribing Witnesses. a double stock-head frame D D and provided with a spur-wheel F to actuate and ad- SAMUEL WVRIGHT' 5 just the said arms, and gearing for rotating Witnesses:

the barrel, substantially as set forth. JOHN SIME,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name R. C. THOMSON. 

